Aatif @aaiqbal Twitter profile

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Aatif

5 months

My most deeply felt solidarity will always be for people who simply do not feel at home in the spaces that are supposed to be *for* them

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@sethmpk A Jewish student of mine, arrested last week, came up to me crying at last night’s Gaza Solidarity Shabbos, said it was the first time they’d ever felt at home in a Jewish space.

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@aaiqbal

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@Santos4Congress Have you tried turning off the car when you’re not in it?

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@christapeterso They’d sometimes reactivate phone lines that had been shut down to do these, so people might just hear a phone ring and have no idea they even had a working phone, and there’s only one thing it could mean

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@elizaorlins I really wish this would be admissible in other cases to show just how often a hysterical 911 call tells you nothing at all about guilt

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@duty2warn @BeSeriousUSA “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” -James Baldwin

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@joe_messina @whimsikal It's surreal remembering that Hillary Clinton wrote a book with that literal title and Republicans wrote angry responses insisting that all you need is a family

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@steamyporkbuns I suspect a big part is that Dem messaging has been so atrocious. Biden refusing basic gestures of sympathy for grieving families, constant gaslighting about “most moral army”, etc

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@aaiqbal

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@cfiesler Finally someone takes into account the 399 million abortions I get every year

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@OsitaNwanevu Even if someone doesn’t know JD, a giant unfamiliar logo on my coke can is more than enough to prompt maybe reading the “WHISKEY” right in the middle

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@LittleMammith The scoia'tael in the Witcher are a very clear example. In all 3 games (to varying degrees) you have to decide how much you’re willing to deal with them

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@aaiqbal

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@BadLegalTakes @Popehat I love the idea that the federal government could ban anyone from asking anyone else if they’re sick right now, but it’s a First Amendment violation if Twitter bans people who use its platform to plot a coup

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@baddestmamajama Right, they're not logic questions, they're much more "guess what I'm thinking." Which is an important skill, but far from a pure test of mental ability or whatever

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@tobinjstone A 12 story building across the street would mean good restaurants nearby are more likely to stay in business

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@mjs_DC What’s their objection to the flyer? Does it get the date and time wrong or something?

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@Leakjr @krystalball No one, whether adult or child or unborn, has the right to commandeer another person’s body

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@aaiqbal

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@JRLMMUSIC @JohnsProgressiv @OnceUponARoss @NomikiKonst Until he flipped and took the exact opposite position once Hillary had a clear majority of pledged delegates

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@aaiqbal

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@ClawYousay @brainless_ethan @perfectsweeties Wait is THAT why so many sites (like steam forums) have “you are leaving the site and going to a different one” warning popups?

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@opinonhaver I remember first semester of law school in 2008, we looked at a random sampling of the "earmarks" that everyone hated and they were all like funding for children's cancer hospitals in neighborhoods with the highest rates of leukemia

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@AndySpecht @doctorzarah @AP Enraging that teachers were so much braver, with so little resources, than the police who have military equipment and get all the cultural credit for bravery

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@aaiqbal

3 years

@cblatts I also wish intellectually serious conservatives existed and were able to contribute to constructive meaningful debate, but alas

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@christapeterso I really mean it, [Autofilled Sig Block]

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@golikehellmachi @LemieuxLGM And now he has to hire new people just to send the severance checks

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@LeslieStreeter An Asian person would tell you that it’s very obviously not a slur, and that if you’re confused about that you don’t understand the context

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@JakeAnbinder The point is unearned elite privilege (for example, national prominence at an early age), it doesn’t need to be luxury or wealth

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@aaiqbal

2 years

@sarahemclaugh As a Muslim let me also say it's insulting to be told this was an "image forbidden for Muslims to look upon". That's, at the very least... an extremely contested statement among Muslims, certainly not a valid premise for any kind of academic policy

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@powellAtlantic @itslaylas Then how were they lost "in the fighting"?

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@kiranm13 @AmziQureshi @AngryBlackLady That's not what it is! It's a reference to a specific speech!

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@ZubinJain1 @focusfronting Sigh. Not even anticipating the most obvious confounding factors

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@ildfluer @tiaH_R @courtdanee2 I’ve heard people theorizing that overfeeding babies speeds up their metabolism, but I never took the idea seriously

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@aaiqbal

5 years

@ProjectVirginia @NathanLerner @ActivateVA “Replace guns with speech” is literally just civilization

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@constans Also a less frequent train needs to be much more reliable. If it normally runs every 10 minutes and one train just doesn’t run, I lose 10 minutes. If it normally runs hourly…

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@aaiqbal

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@HeerJeet Interesting that 35-44 support a ceasefire most strongly. Presumably because the lies that led to the Iraq War were so formative for us

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@aaiqbal

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@christapeterso Everyone knows that legitimate indigenous ties to the land were frozen in exactly 500BC, nothing before or after matters. (Wish I had any clue what group my ancestors would have belonged to in 500BC… I guess I’m just homeless forever then)

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@aaiqbal

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@richmintz Illegally parked cars should be considered abandoned property, anyone can do whatever they want to them

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1 year

@SocDoneLeft This is a very good list of recommendations

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@aaiqbal

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@EmissaryOfNight I'd always seen numbers around 25k Palestinians injured in the Great March of Return. 6,000 is just from direct Israeli fire? (Of course firing into a crowd causes many other injuries in other ways)

WHO launches report on the Right to Health 2018, October 2019

October 2019, Ramallah – WHO today released its report, “Right to Health in the occupied Palestinian territory: 2018”. The report examines obstacles to achieving the highest attainable standard of...

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@aaiqbal

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@isaiah_bb Until like a month ago, the whole job was fundraising and flattering donors and politicians. They never had to run literally anything operationally. The average forum mod or subreddit admin has more experience enforcing rules evenly

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@JillFilipovic “Human shields” is just a bigoted trope that Israel has been using to smear Palestinians for decades, since well before Hamas even existed. It’s sad that you’d fall for this

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@aaiqbal

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@sullydish CRT and GRT are “profoundly connected” because GRT is a particularly virulent form of racism and CRT is absolutely essential in any serious attempt to fight racism. Somehow this leads you to think CRT is bad

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@LittleMammith It’s kinda nice to reduce potentially complicated questions of political alignment to “if your country established universal health care in 1950, you are all forever leftists on every other topic”

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@CatholicClod @BeijingPalmer This seems like a very very niche subculture that maybe 30 people on campus have ever heard of, but they all know someone with an Atlantic byline

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@dylanmatt @chrislhayes By “wind power” does he mean sailing ships? Don’t stop at slavery then, we can also blame it for imperialism and piracy and immigration and arms trafficking and

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@christapeterso Makes more sense than the commodity futures trading commission somehow causing this

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@ZionismTakes @Rrrrnessa She is 100% unambiguously correct

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@mtgreenee @FBI @TwitterSafety @KeithOlbermann It’s so funny watching you pretend to care about threats or violence

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@timurkuran You’re just mad you’re being judged on the content of your character

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@eshear Bitcoin. Finally we have a real stablecoin!

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@EthanBWinter CDC should just reissue it with a 3A savings clause, so landlords can still evict soldiers and only soldiers

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@chrislhayes Yes, because my AP US History teacher hated Thomas Jefferson and wanted us to know every single reason why

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@svershbow @CarissasNewLife Logging into the portal will just require entering a code sent to your phone. And another code sent to your email. And confirming your date of birth. And another code sent to a different phone. And

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@BobbyAllyn As usual, you can never defraud investors but if you defraud patients or customers or anyone else, who cares?

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@JakeAnbinder All those vestigial “& Sons” company names

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@donmoyn If he went back and resumed his public prayers, it might be harder to forget SCOTUS brazenly mischaracterizing the facts

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@RottenInDenmark It seems to be an attempt to replicate the rhetorical impact of a hypocrisy accusation, without any need to prove hypocrisy

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@RichardHanania Turns out some people think manslaughter is a bad thing, where do they get the nerve

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@William_E_Wolfe Yes, let's treat marriage and slavery as interchangeable. Doesn't say good things about *your* marriage

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@geosyndicalist @SarahTaber_bww My neighborhood used that logic to block *bike paths*. I’ve been trying to imagine a cycle-by shooting, you can’t even do that in any GTA game

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@Ruth_Mensch There’s plenty they could be doing usefully (city councils! Referenda on enviro issues!) but they’re contesting only the useless races and none of the useful ones

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@DeepFriedDNA @paiiige Did you know moon-landing truthers don’t even exist, the CIA made them up to discredit all the other truthers

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@nikicaga Logical progression of “don’t go outside unsupervised” Twitter

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@tomgara The fact that such a brazen elaborate scheme can still generate its intended headlines... sigh

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@ptothebm @TanaGaneva @CaitlinPacific If you feel harassed by seeing people standing holding hands, you really really should not go to college

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@PaperbackStash @YahooNews The American “pro-life” movement is categorically not concerned with these issues, and in most cases actively opposes any efforts to address them

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@purplechrain @RaquelDesigns This whole exchange gives me so much more faith that we’ll continue to do a good job at listening to each other going forward even when feelings are really raw

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@kosh516 @RyanRadia @sensiblemoderat @SwannMarcus89 References to all 3 were also common in 90s movies!

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@erinbiba @thegorrambatman @neighbourgalaxy I recall someone saying that “do probiotics help your micro biome?” is like asking “does adding animals improve the ecology of a forest?” when you don’t know which animals or which forest or where how many are being added

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@shl Investors will be automated WAY before plumbers or janitors or nurses or therapists or

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Would have been nice if NYC had a remotely workable outdoor dining program!

NYC DOT

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🚨 Send to a business owner you care about! 🚨 Businesses with outdoor dining setups must apply to the new outdoor dining program by 8/3 or remove their setup. Apply now at

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@ArmandDoma The REAL problem is that my neighbor might marry some loser. I demand my constitutional right of first refusal

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@RottenInDenmark His own extremely nonsensical subjective definition, under which a published author who gets royalty checks annually is somehow not an author

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@thomaschattwill What if the letter itself is so vague and platitudinous that the only way to give it meaning is to look at who signed it?

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@JJM1036303 @mustachetoilet The claim that objecting to genocide can only ever be “Jew hate” is extremely stupid

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@Alonso_GD I can’t even tell what they thought the “damage” was. They said their video was “taken out of context” but then they didn’t do anything to clarify the context

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@christapeterso Awareness of genocide probably has not been good for my skin

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@rebeccaga11oway Especially when you compare Barnard’s reaction to UTS’s

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Statement to students from President Serene Jones of Union Theological Seminary, affiliate of Columbia University regarding Columbia President Shafik’s ordered arrests of peaceful student protesters

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@philipaklein Well yes, if you make it a top life priority to throw a tantrum anytime basic courtesy is expected of you, that might make life unnecessarily difficult for no reason

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@LittleMammith This has to be a very extreme example but it’s still an unsurprising result of constant active shooter drills being apparently the only available way to act like we’re doing something to address school shootings. Hell, I thought *stranger danger* was making kids unduly paranoid

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@whstancil Problem is, expecting conservative commentators to meet any kind of standards effectively results in censoring them, so they have to get special rules

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@csilverandgold $3600 Candles keeps coming up too, but it’s more niche

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@alitlstrawberry This one?

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“Is half of me only worth living?” This Palestinian Ukrainian has a message for U.S. politicians over their support for Ukraine, but not Palestine.

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@KarenAttiah @TaylorLorenz What do people think "branding" even means other than actively investing in your public reputation? The idea is that it's "cringey" because we're supposed to act like we've above it, we operate on some ethereal plane?

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@perdricof 100%. In practice historic preservation mostly comes up only when a building can no longer serve the actual historic role it used to play, and since that ship has sailed only the building facade is left to “preserve.” Beautiful church with no congregation is rarely worth saving

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@baddestmamajama That’s good advice for attracting extremely terrible men

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@JoePostingg You’re in a race to save the galaxy where time is of the essence, so you get the fastest ship in the fleet, but you can only take 2 companions with you per mission and you also need to make time to deliver random packages to an organized crime syndicate

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@HinesAllTheTime @umichvoter Like, Fetterman agrees with her too loudly or something

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@opinonhaver I’m playing it now for the first time and I’m amazed at how thoroughly it demonstrates that

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@LinkofSunshine These are the only options in modern America. Either bowl alone or ransack a gas station with 70 friends

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@hannnahmmarie COVID isn’t an occupational risk, but police deaths from COVID are “in the line of duty”

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@jedshug Isn’t 38-40% considerably more popular than, say, ending Roe v Wade and many many other long-standing GOP platform planks?

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@ManielDerchant @revhowardarson I think this counts

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@alexbkane That new antisemitism task group should maybe do something about Jewish students being censored here

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@rieszspieces @opinonhaver Just get 2-3 more degrees! Doesn’t matter which

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@aliensinnoh @janecoaston I mean, Trump did this for 4 years as the actual POTUS

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@hamiltonnolan @jbenmenachem Sending rich people to prison may well be the most promising way to achieve that

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@NYCMayor Are you unwilling to containerize trash because that makes it hard to park on the sidewalk?

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@yhdistyminen So, cooperate consistently until the second you hear of anyone else defecting, and then defect forever afterwards?

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Strongly endorse anything @DalrympleWill is involved in. I'm somehow still in the first season of @EmpirePodUK because I keep listening to certain episodes multiple times (Maybe I should just skip ahead in the meantime...)

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And I cannot recommend highly enough reading @DalrympleWill on the East India company and listening to his superb and addictive podcasts @EmpirePodUK on India to understand. I believe the Chinese planners are using Britain in India and avoiding the mistakes.

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@constans Probably their parents made mid-six-figures but still described themselves as “middle class living paycheck to paycheck”

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@opinonhaver The crucial assumption is that only one person can try to escape at any one time

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@clhubes In terms of social structures, you don’t think Heathers did just as much calling out some 17 years earlier? (ofc Heathers got a lot darker much faster)

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